Inside Foreign Affairs November/December 2022 issue:
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
Following the closure of numerous amateur stations, the BBC starts its first daily radio service in London. After much argument, news is supplied by an agency, and music drama and “talks” fill the airwaves for only a few hours a day. It isn’t long before radio is heard across the nation. This black and white footage from 1922 is silent.
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for Britain, (10:35) the risks of Bidenomics and (18:20) will Iran’s women win?
“Demon Copperhead” reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
There’s plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we’re headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: Sometimes you have to beg millions of fans for mercy.
The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history
Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago
Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists
Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction
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